Paulo Coelho Quotes

It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

Beauty that arose out of pain.

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

I get why we don't want to be in pain, but there's something very essential about what happens when we're in pain and some of the growth that can come from it if we stare at it straight in the face.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower

Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize there are more flavors of pain than coffee. Pain does two things: it teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. And everything that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one way or another.

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.